IPVideo, manufacturer of IP-based surveillance and command center solutions, welcomes Carey Lefebvre as its Western Regional Channel Manager. Carey has been in the industry long enough to have seen a major change in his 20 years in the Physical Security and Surveillance landscape.

More and more, access to both the physical doors as well as IT resources – those that reside on the network – is converged, resulting in what is called physical and logical access integration on a single credential.

Over the past three years, Euralarm Services Section's main endeavour has been to develop and advance a new European standard, prEN 16763. It defines for the first time the quality level of Services for electronic fire safety systems and security systems, to comply with the objectives of the Europea

The convergence of security systems and IT systems has been a widely debated topic in the past ten years. In many cases, the results were not successful due to conflicts of interest and disagreements between IT and security professionals. Could a growing presence of IT players in the physical securi

Checking in visitors and providing an environment that makes them feel comfortable and welcome are an important part of any company's operations. That's where users can rely on today's visitor management systems, which have income more advanced and integrated, especially in an increasingly connected

Just as security products have increasingly moved toward IP, the same holds true for access control, which inevitably becomes a part of the Internet of Things framework. Amid this trend, the role of the systems integrator will also have to evolve.